. Review of reviews and world's work. ens-land, in 1863. He has been miner, farmer, andjournalist. But for his health he would havebeen leader of his party in the federal Senate. Mr. Hugh Mahon, postmaster - general, wasborn in Ireland, in 1858, had some farming ex-perience in Canada, and became a journalist. Hewas locked up in Kilmainham Jail without atrial in 1881-82. On his release, he came toAustralia for his health, and was connected withmany journals. He moved to West Australia,where he now represents Coolgardie in the fed-eral House. Senator Macgregor, vice-president of the ex-ecutive c
. Review of reviews and world's work. ens-land, in 1863. He has been miner, farmer, andjournalist. But for his health he would havebeen leader of his party in the federal Senate. Mr. Hugh Mahon, postmaster - general, wasborn in Ireland, in 1858, had some farming ex-perience in Canada, and became a journalist. Hewas locked up in Kilmainham Jail without atrial in 1881-82. On his release, he came toAustralia for his health, and was connected withmany journals. He moved to West Australia,where he now represents Coolgardie in the fed-eral House. Senator Macgregor, vice-president of the ex-ecutive council, was born in Argyllshire, in 1848,worked as a gardener, wandered as a laborer,and in 1867 came to South Australia. Presi-dent of the United Labor party in South , he was returned to the Legislative Coun-cil of that colony in 1894. In 1901, he waselected a Senator of the Commonwealth. Mr. Henry P>. Higgins, , attorney-general,is the only member of the new cabinet not amember of the Labor caucus. lie was born in. SENATOR MACGREGOR. (Vice-president of the execu-tive council.) HON. HENRY B. HIGGINS, Ireland, in a Wesleyan parsonage, had his school-ing in Dublin, studied at Melbourne University,where he graduated , , taking threescholarships and first-class honors. In 1876, hewas called to the Victorian bar. Ten years later,he was admitted to the Inner Temple, London,and since 1887 has become leader of the equitybar in Victoria. He entered the Victorian Par-liament in 1894. He was defeated in 1900, owing to his outspoken condemnation of thetreatment of the Boers during the war. He waselected to the federal Parliament for NorthMelbourne. He is a member of the council ofthe Melbourne University, and has always takena great interest in university matters. He con-tributes to the Revieiu an appreciation of thenew ministry. He inquires into the secret ofthe growing strength of the Labor party. Itselection address, taken as a whole, is, he says,sober,
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